Nobel Prize Winners and Achievements 2017 Quiz

Question 1

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017?

Accepted Answer

Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne

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Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger

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Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam

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Peter Higgs and Francois Englert

Question 2

Which three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017?

Accepted Answer

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson

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Linus Pauling, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Max Perutz

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Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins

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Rita Levi-Montalcini, Stanley Cohen, and Rita Levi

Question 3

Who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017?

Accepted Answer

Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young

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Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston

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Christian de Duve, Albert Claude, and George Palade

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Paul Ehrlich, Ilya Metchnikoff, and Emil von Behring

Question 4

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?

Accepted Answer

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Aurelio Cortes

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Patrick Modiano

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Yann Martel

Question 5

Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017?

Accepted Answer

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

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Malala Yousafzai

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Jimmy Carter

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Barack Obama

Question 6

Who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2017?

Accepted Answer

Richard Thaler

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Amartya Sen

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Daniel Kahneman

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Vernon Smith

Question 7

Which experiment was used to detect gravitational waves in 2017?

Accepted Answer

LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)

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VIRGO

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Hubble Space Telescope

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Chandra X-ray Observatory

Question 8

In which field did cryo-electron microscopy revolutionize research?

Accepted Answer

Biochemistry and molecular biology

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Geology

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Astronomy

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Atmospheric science

Question 9

What does circadian rhythm control?

Accepted Answer

Sleep, wakefulness, and other daily physiological processes

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Only sleep

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Only body temperature

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Only hormone secretion

Question 10

Kazuo Ishiguro is an author from which country?

Accepted Answer

Britain (of Japanese origin)

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United States

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Japan

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Canada

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